The extent to which just how thoroughly the Religious Right’s agenda dominates the 2012 GOP platform was helpfully exposed last night when David Barton appeared on GBTV to brag that the platform is “the most conservative in my lifetime,” revealing that he personally “made 71 motions to add to this platform and 70 of them got passed”:

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